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yooooo tiyanyu connection is smart as hell maomao

yesss I hope she does go visit meimei indeed 🥲💗

aww maomao feeling relieved 🥹 must’ve been so nervous like what 🥺

"This is all right," Jinshi mumbled. "This is enough for now."
He needed to be clear on his own position. He couldn't remain the Emperor's younger brother forever. He would have to demonstrate that he was no enemy to Empress Gyokuyou or Consort Lihua. A brand on the flank wouldn't be enough.
He needed to do something clearer, more public.

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"Master Jinshi?"
"You can go home for today. Take some dinner with you, if you like. You must be hungry. If it's gone cold, you can reheat it in a bamboo steamer.""But—"
"Just go. Have a drink and a decent meal. I can't have you collapsing on me. You lost weight again in the western capital, didn't you?" He covered his face with his hands.
"Yes, sir." Maomao gathered up her things and went to leave the room.

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Jinshi hugged Maomao tight. Not out of the animal lust that had been building in him until moments ago. He felt such guilt and pain that he thought he would shatter his own teeth for clenching his jaw.
"I'm sorry to make you be the careful one."

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Jinshi promptly blanched. He felt cold all over.
"Having accepted your feelings, Master Jinshi, I also accept what comes with them, including having relations. But I must draw a bright line when it comes to that agreement: I will not become Empress Gyokuyou's enemy."
Jinshi bit his lip hard. He'd been thoughtless.
Had he forgotten who and what he was?

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"All right, but if Maomao is coming, then what's all this?" Jinshi looked toward his bedroom. Incense was burning-a stronger smell than usual-while the bedclothes had all been changed, rose petals—out of season!-scattered on top, and the normal canopy of his bed had been exchanged for a translucent woven one with a flower pattern…

OK YEA cause I thought jinshi was just calling her to hang out too 😭

Ah-Duo laughed uproariously, and privately she made a wish:
Don't let Yue walk the same path as Yoh.

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Was Yoh now trying to constrain not just Ah-Duo, but her son as well?
And was that son trying to constrain Maomao?
That was the thought that had made her ache at her powerlessness, that had led to her suggestion to Maomao. But she had misread the young woman. Maomao was far more flexible and strong and stubborn than Ah-Duo.

my whole heart 🥲💗 wish my women were free 😭